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Thought I would make another bowl and something fun and easy.

Finished this Steve Good project, done on 1/4" BB and painted backer Sky blue.

Well, after getting caught up on my orders I took a better look at the EX-21 and found the issue to not be a bad bearing or sleeve, but rather a mistake on my part during the rebuild last fall. Turns out there is a difference in the length of the sleeve, not by much but enough that the sleeve wasn't getting pinched together enough to tighten it all down good. I ended up having to use my original sleeve, luckily it wasn't too bad of shape. That would be one more difference in the China made saw too then.. Kind of baffles me how it ran good like that for as many hours as I run the thing.. I didn't run it much after putting it all back together and tuned again.. but what little I did run it, it ran really well again so.. Yay..

The man who once killed two stones with one bird, the reason Waldo is hiding, the man who sleeps with a pillow under his gun, the man whose cowboy boots are made from real cowboys. Chuck Norris Cut in wormy live edge oak. The worms and the edge are now dead.

For what you want to do, you need a front view and a side view, NOT a left and right view. Both views must be the same height and with a common fold line between them so the two views remain positioned correctly with respect to each other. I do a lot of 3D cutting, mostly reindeer, but frequently other patterns too. I have posted many examples of the reindeer, and even many views of the steps involved in cutting a reindeer along with a full description of how to do it. Do a search for my posts and you will find about everything that you will need. The soft cover book that I've attached a cover photo for will give you plenty of 3D patterns to try. Dianna Thompson's patterns all cut very well and she has published several similar books on the subject. The pattern for my reindeer came from www.woodgears. com, but I cleaned up the pattern shape a little, and resized for making several sizes of reindeer. The one in the photo is the next size up from the smallest that I've made (yes there is a smaller size). This pictured size usually becomes ear rings. Larger sizes are for necklaces or just to put on a shelf or hang from the Christmas Tree. Charley

Not sure how this would work out. Tried it different ways but this seems to be the best shot at it. If you cut it let us know how you make out.

Finished this on Monday. Jeff Zaffino pattern, double stack 1/8 inch BB ply. Cut with #1 Niqua spiral 16 X 20. 1302 cuts with 772 just in the grass. Well worth the effort. Jeff

It has been awhile that I could spend time in my little shop, got all the other “todo things” done, so now time for me to play. Due to Covid all the golf courses are closed here in Ontario (only place in North America- go figure) so in the basement I went. Denny had too much fun with the bird houses so I decided to use some of my scrap pieces and have fun also. Animals puzzles are from Steve Good the same for the trivet.

I use #56 thru #69 for many projects.

This is one of the older threads where CharleyL and others shared a lot of information and details on cutting compound cuts. https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/24171-compound-cutting-wood/ It is well worth the time to read through for anyone interested in doing compound cutting. One key thing that several point out, and I learned from my own attempts, when trying these cuts use a skip tooth blade NOT reverse teeth. The kerf needs to be cleaned out as you cut that the reverse teeth doesn’t allow for like the skip tooth.

I need to haul my trailer load of scrap in.. should take my van on a one way drive to it's final destination too, LOL Problem is I don't have a replacement for it yet. Been a great van, too bad the rust has taken its toll on it. Bought it 12 years ago for $2800 to haul the family around, now the kids are grown I don't really need a minivan anymore but I may end up buying another.. Nice to be able to fold the seats down into the floor and haul 4 x 8 sheets of ply or 10ft. boards etc.. and not have any of it get wet if it's raining or snowing. Dang my old Dodge pick-up can't even haul as much as the box is only a 6.5 ft box. Now days trucks with a 8 ft. bed are hard to find. Anyway the old van.. never did anything to it other than normal maintenance. Pushing 300,000 miles.. I've put 150,000 on it myself. Maybe if scrap is high enough I could get another van,

Hans Meier has some you tube videos on 3D cutting.

Scrap metal has zoomed in price. Sell it if you have any, that will pay for your lumber.

I like making crosses, usually with geometric ornaments, but this time I made a little scene - Cross with shroud and Bible Video of making Cross and Bible Cross and Bible pattern

Jes, just cut it and find out. Yes, it is compound cutting. Like Les said just put the pattern of the mermaid on adjacent sides of the blank and you should get what you want.

Just finished this one for my daughter as she loves Giraffes,just need to trim down mount board and hang it up !

I think, what the heck do I know as I have only cut a few compound pieces, you need the pattern of the mermaid facing the opposite way. Hope I said that correctly.

Most of mine just improves the dirt floor of my shop. A lot of it goes up my nose, the rest I track in my house.

I use it as a carpet in my shop. Actually I save it and use it for traction on the ice in the winter.

Completed this yard sign today....will have rebar stakes installed to stick it in the ground....beige w/Kona brown lettering.....3ftW x 25”T....comments welcome

My son is taking his placement Math test for the year. I'm going to hide this in his bag. It's a math cat.

This was fun to cut. I must be the slowest scroller in the world. I spent 15 hours and 36 minutes on the saw. Probably another 5 hours changing blade from hole to hole and drilling 786 holes. The image is 10-1/2 X 8. Used 27 2/0 Super Pike blades and cut 3mm Pre-finished BB.

So I tried a 3d cut this morning... My first. I've been thinking of making a themed Chess Set. I don't play very well (actually, I don't play at all), but I love themed chess sets LOL Anyway, I used a Pegas #5 mfg brand spanking new blade. The dimensions of the piece ended up at 3 3/8" H x 1 1/4" W Here are the pics and then the lessons I learned - feel free to add your lessons as I may do this again with more scraps It's been dipped in polyurethane and is drying - this is the 2nd dip I don't think it came out to terrible, and I learned a few things which is always good. So for others who have not done this type of cut, but may be considering it here is what I learned... 1. Wood species - very important. I used poplar since that is what I use mostly at the moment. I can see this being a real problem with a very hard wood or a very soft wood. 2. The blank - I used a piece of poplar I had left over. It wasn't exactly cut to size (1 3/4" x 13/16"), but this was a test so I used it. This was the biggest problem I had... The problem was it wasn't a square piece, but was rectangular. This caused a problem when cutting the tall side as it barely fit below the arm of my saw and I couldn't get a good hold of it to guide it through the cut, the arm kept banging the heck out of my fingers. Even with a jig (which was also not set up correctly) I had a very difficult time holding the piece to cut. I think if/when I do another I'll cut the wood more square and thinner and I have to fix my jig to lock the piece in place. 3. Gluing - I used a glue stick and glued right to the wood. Since I had read the outside was going to be throw away any way, it seemed like the easiest option. It was easy, and the correct selection for me. Oh, and I hate to throw things away so I saved the pieces that are throw away. I can use them for framed scenic units when I make them and glue them to the backing 4. Drilling - I used a 1/8 drill bit and probably should have a little smaller for the starting holes. Problem was the rectangular side also posed a problem with the bit size. 5. Blade - There were 2 sides to cut on this pattern, and one side (the deepest cut side) as mentioned in #2 above was a real bear to hold onto and guide. However, the selection of the #5 was spot on, if I used a harder wood I would most likely use a #7 blade instead. 6. Cutting - The cutting of the flat side, was fairly smooth. But again see #2, not so easy. And the tall side took a lot longer than the flat side - makes sense cutting through more wood 7. Taping - Once I had finished cutting the flat side, I had to tape the cut piece in place with clear packing tape. I should have taped the whole thing BEFORE starting the cut. Well there it is. Another type of cut under my belt! Thanks as always in advance for reading

The guy in the middle was our leader rusty rankin. He lived on his property which stretched back to the original Spanish land grant. Was 7 miles by 7miles. Originally it was down to 5 acres on the neches river in Sweeney switch Texas. We lost him 2 weeks ago. Got to go down and say good bye to my best friend in the world the day before he decide to turn oxygen and antibiotics off double pneumonia. Other guy is Bob. We spent years cooking on the Chuck wagon at Dollywood. Silver dollar city rodeos. Best times of my life outside my kids I ever had. End of the trail. Fixing to take this to brother Bob in Tennessee. for those that got there picture 10 years before last year Rusty was Dollywood Santa also. my tribute to my friends. Love miss you rusty.

Not to hijack this thread, but does anyone know of good places to buy said size drill bit at decent prices? I'm thinking a dozen at a shot.

Think of it this way. Front view on one side, profile on the other side. The top of the head and the bottom must be at the same level.

I just paid $25 for a 5 x 5 one eighth sheet. NC.

KG5MCE here I noticed your call sign.

I was born and raised in the city. Never got to be exposed to country life. I found this particular set of videos on Youtube and I have been watching them for about a week now. I'm captivated by what this young guy does with his saw mill. He does build some interesting things too. Anyway, there are so many videos to watch, I can't pick a particular link to suggest here but if you go to Youtube and search for "Fall Line Ridge Videos" you'll find them. Prepare to be entertained. At least I am. I'm watching this one right now.

I went to Paxton last week and 5X5' 1/8" is $25. My pre-finished 5X5' 1/8" was $35.00 per sheet. You got a bargain.

I am in the need of some BB ply, so i called Paxton Hardwood in Cincinnati and for 1/8 russian BB is $17.45 got it 1/2 nonth ago for $15.35 so it is going upa little I guess I will pick up a couple of sheets in the morning don't have time today. IKE

If you wanted to have something that has a look on one side that is different from the look of the other side, you'd use the pattern with the center line crease and mount it to your workpiece with the serration on the corner and it must be at a perfect 90 degree. If you want to have one free-standing piece that looks the same on all sides, then you will have a pattern of one or the other but on two sides still creased at the center line. And it would be on a square piece of stock so that it measures the same on all sides. 3-D and compound cutting is the same thing as far as I know. When I did this piece, it was done on blocks that were 3/4" x 1 1/2" and the pattern was cut so that it would end up with the ornate cut out on one side and the scrolled look on the other side.

I read a while back to mix the saw dust with shellac instead of wood glue. I tried it last week and it worked well.

Not sure how Lawson does it but I use a clear drying wood glue and mix the sawdust into the glue.. stir it up good and keep adding more sawdust until you get the desired consistency.. I've never bought or used actual wood fillers.. When I saw I will take some of the sawdust and store it in the same test tubes I keep my saw blades in.. mark it for whatever type of wood it is..

i LOVE IT i WOULD LOVE TO TRY AND DO THAT ONE yOU DID REAL GOOD ON THAT ONE. IKE

Well that's what this old yankee calls it. It is filler, sometimes I can't get the exact color of the wood so I use the sawdust of the wood I just cut. Most of the time it works pretty darn well.

Awesome piece Les!! Maybe some day I'll try one of those... I've got to learn to slow down on fretwork. I get to cutting and keep trying to go faster because I want to see the finished work. Then it happens...a slip...lol. You created a beautiful piece, and I love the way it looks framed.

Excellent scrolling. I really like that pattern. The results are beautiful. I can only scroll about 2/3 hours anymore before my eyes start to blur. I usually just quit for the day and start again the next day. Sometimes I don't get back to it for days as I get sidetracked with something else. It eventually gets done. I really never know how long, how many holes, or blades it takes. Also, I really don't do a lot of fretwork. I'm mostly into Intarsia and there really isnt that many holes to drill. I rarely break any blades when I do Intarsia either. I'm in awe of you folks that can sit there and drill hundreds of holes and constantly keep threading those little blades like a 2/0 through those tiny little holes. I just don't have the patience for that. But I sure like to see the finished pieces. Some are really beautiful. I'm working on a clock right now that has many holes. But I can use a 1/16" drill bit or larger if i choose for most of the holes. That makes it's much easier for me to see and cut.

I spent most of my life farming in NE Iowa. Dad had a sawmill as a 2nd occupation. It uses a 48" diameter circular blade. Long before this type of band saws were used. Belt driven by a John Deere 820 tractor. People would bring logs & we sawed them & charged according to what the log "squared at" & the length. Piled the slabs on a row. let them dry a year & start another row. Cut from the year old row & sold as firewood. The blade had round "tooth holders". First the disposable teeth were sharpened with a hand file, later with an electrical grinder, the forerunner of the Dremel. The worst logs were cut from in peoples yards. We hit nails, hammock holders, horseshoes, rifle shells, etc. The bigger things ruined every tooth. Working around a mill was darn hard work. Dad enjoyed it & I think that a big reason for doing it, was to keep my brother & I tired & our eyes burning from sawdust. At the end of the day, we had NO DEISIRE to go out raising heck or courting the Ladies at night. Dad split the income 3 ways, between himself & my brother. That was our spending money.

Thought I would just make something fun and simple tonight that smelled good.

Just finished this one along with a bunch more I will post soon.

Great job and I like the wood!

I think it is a Steve Good Pattern. https://www.stevedgood.com/catalog/ search giraffe... free

I don’t know about that one but Sue Mey has a couple of nice ones.

Dan .. anyway I can get that Giraffe pattern ??? I would love to try to do one of those ... Thanks, Gus

Sorry for hear your lose

The grandkids love tossing handfuls into the firepit and watching the sparkles. I burn most of mine.

Mine goes to the field.

buy a brick press. mix sawdust with water (50 50) let stand for a hour then press your brick let dry. burns great in a log burner

As far as Baltic Birch plywood I noticed our supplier says call for prices now. I was going to make a trip to get some but I am hesitant to call for prices. As for saw dust I dump. It on low spots in my yard or take it to the club shop for farmers to pickup.